Dr Miranda Robbins

University position

MRC Career Development Fellow

Departments

Department of Zoology

Institutes

Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Email

mrobbins@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

Home page

https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-l...

Research Themes

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

The Zlatic Lab is interested in identifying the neural circuits required for behaviour. My work in the group aims to identify the mechanisms of long-term memory formation following olfactory associative learning. For this work I use 2-photon microscopy with holography for single-cell optogenetic stimulation, and electron microscopy for computational network reconstruction. We use Drosophila larvae as a model due to their small number of neurons and ability to introduce a large number of transgenes.

Research Focus

Keywords

memory

learning

networks

plasticity

Drosophila larvae

Clinical conditions

No direct clinical relevance

Equipment

2-photon microscopy with holography

Behavioural analysis

Calcium imaging

Electron Microscopy

Fluorescence microscopy

Microscopy

Collaborators

No collaborators listed